Entries for May 2015

As Westerners, we are so fortunate to live in 2015. Technological advances are moving at a lightning-fast pace, communication is more instantaneous than we ever imagined, and our levels of comfort have skyrocketed in the past one hundred years. However, there is one thing that the twenty-first century has not given us, optimal health.

Here’s a sobering statistic: 80 percent of all dog bites happen to children under five, and 80 percent of those are directly on the face. Ouch! Considering that dogs have, as I like to say, worked their way from the backyard to the bedroom in the past fifty years, participating and playing an ever-greater role in every aspect of our lives, including those involving children, this situation sorely needs redress. So let’s take a quick look at some common scenarios and important precautions we can implement to safeguard our dog’s interactions with children.(READ MORE)

I’ve spent a few wonderful afternoons with Eckhart Tolle brainstorming on ideas for his new Eckhart Tolle Editions imprint. His scope of reading is vast; he never ceases to amaze me with the range of his knowledge, from ancient Greek texts to the Bible to Christian mysticism to Buddhism to a wide variety of very different modern writers and philosophers and teachers. Eckhart said he’s always looking for and finding things about “the present moment, and about awareness, spirituality, and awakening”; when he came up with those words, I saw that Eckhart was finding in a great many different sources the very things he has understood and mastered in his life.(READ MORE)